I know that it's a problem with UNetbootin because I have seen it before, and managed to solve it by reformatting the USB flash drive to remove to bootloader and then making the live USB again with Startup Disk Creator. If the UNetbootin boot menu does not have an entry for the OS you are trying to boot to under the Default boot menu entry, this is another sign that UNetbootin is not working properly. exe-created sticks don't work on it.The 'Automatic boot in 10 seconds.' countdown loop is a UNetbootin problem. Note: The b0rken notebook still _does_ boot from Live CD as well as from (older) USB sticks that I have created manually 1 year ago. Please insert aīootable floppy and press any key to try again.' * using a newly-bought 'virgin' USB stick (where the Live CD reports it as a FAT16 Then using that stick on Win XP with unetbootin.exe * deleting all partitions on USB stick, from a running Live CD on b0rken HP notebook,

Notebook, then using that stick on Win XP with unetbootin.exe * pre-formatting the USB stick with FAT16, from a running Live CD on b0rken HP HP notebook, then using that stick on Win XP with unetbootin.exe

* pre-formatting the USB stick with FAT32 (or VFAT), from a running Live CD on b0rken When I try to boot from the newly written USB stick on my harddisk-challenged notebook (it is a HP 'compaq nx5000'), I am able to select from boot menu:īooting the USB Hard Disk however always displays an error message. It also seems to write _all_ the required files onto the USB stick. Starting and running unetbootin.exe from my non-privileged Win XP account does work, and it does not indicate any error. ).īut this Win XP is the only working computer I currently have access to, so I didn't have much choice. And as mentioned above, it also I _don't_ have Adminstrator privileges here (I seem to remember that somewhere in the wiki is said that one _does_ needs those, but I'm not sure any more. My Win XP system itself is locked down: it does not allow to boot from CD or from USB. Unetbootin- windows- 312.exe, unetbootin- windows- 310.exeįedora, openSUSE, Ubuntu, Kubuntu (various releases of each) and try to _use_ them to boot up on my personal notebook that has a b0rken harddrive. * _Creating_ the bootable sticks with unetbootin.exe (v. I'm trying to create bootable USB thumbdrives from locally downloaded Live CD ISO image files with the help of unetbootin:

Original Summary: 'USB Sticks created on Win XP without Administrator Privileges don't boot' * Display a hint how to fix the resulting USB drive a posteriori (if possible) * Display a clear warning to the user under such a condition However the resulting USB thumbdrive will not boot, because the syslinux setup will not have created the correct MBR on the stick. If a non-Admin Windows user runs unetbootin.exe, everything seems to work OK without a warning. UPDATE: creating a new and better description about the real issue at hand.

Unetbootin for windows xp